Psychology Today | 22.06.2026 22:47
Scroll X (née Twitter) for long enough and you’ll see a familiar complaint: Algorithms have ruined the feed. Users lament that posts no longer appear in a simple chronology and bristle at how often negative or disturbing news rises to the top. The usual solution quickly follows—calls for the algorithm to work differently, to show less of this and more of that (with “this” and “that” changing from post to post).
